SPOKANE, Wash. – Tik Tok could hit the federal chopping-block soon following the passage of a bipartisan policy which would impose restrictions upon the popular Chinese app in the US House on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R), chair of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee, is pitching the bill which would require the sale of Tik Tok to a US company or a complete ban as a critical national security measure.
“The action today is to protect the data of 177 million users in America from having that data surveilled, targeted and manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party,” McMorris Rodgers said.
According to the Energy and Commerce Committee bill report, Tik Tok is tightly controlled by the CCP.
“Public reporting has repeatedly confirmed statements made by the Executive Branch regarding the tight interlinkages between…TikTok, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” the report said.
McMorris Rodgers argued that former president Donald Trump originated the effort to regulate Tik Tok.
“President Trump started this effort,” McMorris Rodgers …